Snowman Winter Ten Frame Printable

This snowman winter ten frame printable pdf activity is a great way for kids to practice those counting and math skills.

I love that this activity is so versatile that it can be used in so many ways. You can use manipulatives and other little trinkets or you can use finger prints or even do a dot markers too!

These ten frame counting cards make the perfect learning activity that allows your child to work on one to one correspondence, number recognition and pencil grip. There is a blank ten frame as well as ten frames with dots! Don’t forget to check out the 16 snowman activities for kids at the end of this post!

Snowman Winter Ten Frame Printable PDF Activity

What is the importance of the ten frames and the concept of number sense? The printable ten frames allows a child to subitize or visualize the numbers of how many items there are without actually needing to count them. If they work with a tens frame often enough they will learn this early math skill of subitizing.

Materials Required:

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The materials you need will be determined by how you choose to use the activity. The list below will contain a full variety.

Do a dot markers
Dry Erase Pockets
Laminator and Laminating Pockets
Rings
Card stock paper
Snowflakes (I wish I had these for all of our snowman winter crafts)

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10 Frame Cards Set up:

Print out the set of tens frames worksheets that you would like to use. I printed out both sets on card stock. You can laminate them for extra durability if you would like to use them more than once or twice.

Snowflake Winter 10 Ten Frames Printable:

The ten frames that has snowflakes on it would work great for counting. Preschoolers can count each frame and then look at the corresponding numbers.

You can also cut apart the ten frame from the number and have your child match the two up.

5 Ways To Use The Blank 10 Frames:

You can stick these ten frames into a dry erase pocket. Then have your child color with a dry erase marker.
Print it out and let a child color directly on it.
Do a Dot Ten Frames – Have your child dot the ten frame templates with the correct number of dots.
Use a math manipulative, little erasers, pom poms, or whatever small materials you have at home to place the correct amount of trinkets on each number.

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In this picture, we used little gems.
Here I used these adorable little erasers from the Target Dollar Section. These erasers look cute too.

You can use different color trinkets and manipulatives to work on addition!

5. Have your child make the correct number of fingerprints. That would be super cute! I included a link to our favorite stamp tray below in my winter craft supply picks.

I was really amazed at how much my 3-year-old enjoyed these winter ten frames!